My Riffs

Family comes first. The reason is simple.  They’re the ones who maximize your efforts.  The love, time and focus you invest goes the furthest. Not in a transactional way, but in the way of purpose.  Our main purpose isn’t to generate wealth, or accumulate the largest social network. It’s not even to achieve personal accolades. Let everything you do lead and point to the benefit of your family. 

You can’t get through life without trust and faith.  A life absent of these elements is devoid of building blocks.  Trust and faith elevates. Trust and faith renews, restores and rebuilds. 

Say what you want and get it. If you don't aim at something, you won't get anything. Name what your after, make a goal and go for it.

Some people are so divisive. Always looking for differences and reasons to cut off.  Others are unifiers. They look for things that bring people together.  From any situation you can be either a uniter or a divider. 

One of the hardest things to do is to be fully present.  Distractions have never been greater.  Attention spans never shorter.  Our minds can’t stay focused on a single task for long. And so it’s difficult to be present in important moments in life.  It’s something to be aware of and keep practicing. Being fully present allows us to glean everything we can from the moment. Being semi-present makes it difficult to get much from the moment. Having one foot in the present and one in some other fleeting thought or notification is an unsteady foundation. Firmly be in the present, life will feel so much different. 

Keeping pace with everything is a guaranteed burnout.  Purposely slow down. Even daily. Find a time and space to disconnect, decompress and slow down.  The world moves too fast for us. We get far too much information in one day and feel the need to do far too much.  It’s okay to slow down. It’s the secret to productive longevity.